Fuel ... the fossil variety.

It does make you wonder how something so abundant in America is so expensive? It can't be the availability of the commodity, therefore there must be an agenda. 

The hilarious thing is that it's the very companies the greens want out of business that are getting richer by the second and by big margins. 

So, perhaps that's the point by some nefarious means ... give the fossil fuel producers a giant golden swansong as they become yesterday's men ... however, that suggests that there is rational thought and a long-term plan, and that doesn't sound like government thinking or strategy. So, alternatively, I'm going to suggest it's a bit of cunfest and the governments have fucked up (I applied Occams Razor).

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John Vervaeke, Ep. 4 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Socrates and the Quest for Wisdom

Part four, a week off for a wedding and a deep dive into the mysteries of the Younger Dryas "event" and its speculative enacting courtesy of Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas, Joe Rogan and a couple of other sources (see links down the page). This is in part caused by watching these videos on the meaning crisis (which I reckon is worse now than when these videos were first released). 

We as a species and maybe many species, and especially in the Northern Hemisphere were probably subject to an event around 12,900 to 11,700 years ago. It fits with the timeline of the awakening of modern man's final few steps up to true civilisation (in terms of time relative to evolution), the Axial revolution, and at the extreme outside the spread from somewhere of the refugees from an advanced terrestrial civilisation that got hammered by the Younger Dryas event. That ... or human brain's exapted to a new situation brought about by a cataclysm because human brains had developed enough to allow this physiological re-purposing (bad shit went down we had to adapt or die ... yes I could have lead with that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaptation.

Anyway, these are very useful lectures and this one deals with bullshit and how we all bullshit ourselves, and it's very useful to understand the mechanics of self-deception.

Below are three hours and thirty-five minutes of Younger Dryas event hypothesis, debate and argument along with some very compelling slides and science.

Male Toxicity

Funny isn't it that there only seems to be a category for toxic masculinity, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent term for toxic femininity. It is as time goes by more apparent, that men in general and very specifically white first-world males in the west are seen as the world's problem. It seems from a certain perspective that you can ascribe any number of critiques, insults, or judgments upon us and we are supposed to `respectfully' take it on the chin, buck our ideas up, and not complain that we are under such scrutiny and critique because if we do we are just making the point about our toxicity. In some ways, it's a beautiful trap, doomed if you do, doomed if you don't. 

I often think that men should just go on strike for a few days, a week say. Just none of us turn up for work regardless of what our professions are. Not for money, just so society has a wake-up moment realising the load we carry, for the most part silently, because we are too busy keeping the world running to bitch and moan about how `We've never had it so good.'

John Vervaeke, Ep. 3 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Continuous Cosmos and Modern...

Part three, is a history lesson about cognition and its development. So, not a huge surprise there, however, what we learn, is that cognitive fluency is relative to the material presented to allow you to learn (amongst other things). I can only do an hour each time I watch, there is too much information to assimilate if you try and binge watch, and this is a good thing ... clearly, educators make lectures last about an hour for a reason (had a doh! moment as I realised this) ... that will be an aspect of secondary thinking, which is covered in the second episode.

As an aside, and I am no expert on the Younger Dryas event, all I know is that which I have read on Wikipedia after learning of the hypothesis from friends a few years ago, John Vervaeke doesn't refer to it by name, but the historical context could well be there in the mix

Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

Younger Dryas

John Vervaeke: Ep. 2 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Flow, Metaphor, and the Axial Revolution

How you think, and how you came to think the way you think, is the surface detail here. I would suggest that everyone could benefit from watching this episode as a stand-alone insight into the royal "us".